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If you want to build a big train, buy trains.
If you want to build a big house, buy houses.
If you want to build a big castle, buy castles. Rumour has it that a large Hogwarts Castle set is coming out in the summer.
Garage sales and Craigslist are good places to find quantities of brick at a decent price. Personally, I'd figure out what large MOC I want to build and then buy the pieces specific for that on Bricklink. So rough out your design on Lego Digital Designer first and create a parts list to buy from. As you buy parts for your build, browse the store for any other cheap parts you want to add to your general inventory. Might as well make the most for the shipping costs. More advice. I'd avoid buying parts at Brickworld. Show prices are usually on the expensive side. I'm sure that they will have some of the dealers that sell parts by the cup and the large parts tables are fun to look through but not really a source for mass quantities. Not to bum you out, but until your parts collection hits the 100K+ mark, you won’t have most of the pieces you need for a specific build. Lego has a lot of different parts! Lastly, hook up with an active Lego Club. They have access to a Lego public relations program called "Lugbulk" that allows active member's to purchase cheap parts once a year in a mass order.
https://lexington.craigslist.org/tag/d/lego-legos-120-lbs-lot-many/6524019345.html
Lot of great parts but $10.00 a pound is more than I would pay. This lot looks pretty clean of off-brand parts and other small toys but you can bet that it will not have very many of the minfigs.
For a long time I didn't want to buy preowned, so I would buy lots of broken-set unopened factory bags from a seller I knew, knowing that 9 times out of 10 I would get like, 85% of a set, but I'm not a minifigure guy so I would flip the figs if they were in the bags, then eithe reinvest in more lots or purchase specific parts from Bricklink or sets that I wanted enough to pay near full price for.